Chapter 228 Twenty-two Gachapon

It's not entirely a coincidence that Belmode appears here.

She and Cherry Brandy already have a special relationship, and she has always regarded Kaluuya as her own sunshine during the more than ten years she has been with him. To her, Kaluuya is the only one who can be considered a family member.

After Cherry Brandy's death, she became Kaluuya's last and only family member.

Originally, Vermode had often thought about what kind of relationship she and Kalua would have in the future, teacher and student or mother and son? As for the latter, since she was a good friend of Cherry Brandy and was already the godmother of Akae Nazuki, it was not strange to say so.

But later, Kaluya accepted a mission and was sent to the police as an undercover agent. For safety reasons, they did not have much contact for two years until Kaluya successfully entered the police academy at the age of 20.

As a professional, Kaluya was supposed to go to another police academy, but the police took his special status into consideration and made such an arrangement. From then on, Vermouth was finally able to contact Kaluya, who was half out of the police's protection and surveillance.

She was actually very happy that Kaluya could walk into the sunlight, but she didn't want Kaluya to really make friends with anyone over there, because Vermouth knew that for people like them who live in the dark, standing against their friends was the most painful thing.

Because there was a special person named "Akajiang Nayue" in that class, the information of all the students of the same class was protected by multiple layers of encryption, so even Vermouth found it difficult to obtain too much information. She could only find out through her own channels that Kaluya was close to some students of the same class...

More information, such as what the students’ names and appearances are, is unknown.

When Kalua graduated, Vermouth thought that he would go to the Metropolitan Police Department or the Police Department as the boss had arranged and climb all the way to a very high position, but that didn't happen.

On the night after graduating and completing his first mission after leaving the police academy, Kaluuya called her for the last time and then disappeared. No one could find him, not even her.

Vermouth still can't forget every word Kaluuya said to her during the call, especially the last few sentences before he hung up.

"If you meet Zero and Hiro in the organization, please help me take care of them if it's not difficult for you, Sharon." Her sun asked solemnly, "Relationship? They are my very important friends."

"...Also, take care of yourself, Sharon. You are my only family."

The child said to her in a rare cheerful tone after his parents died: "When we met in the music store before, I learned a guitar song from Hiro. I will play it for you next time we meet... How about being my first audience?"

Bermode said yes.

But there was no next time, that was the last time she heard Kaluuya's voice.

Vermouth originally thought that Zero and Hiro were classmates that Kaluuya knew in the police academy, who would go undercover in the organization in the future. For this reason, she even complained in her heart that the kid really didn't treat her as an outsider at all... Although she was not an outsider in the first place, sometimes one had to be a little wary. How could he so bluntly ask her to take care of two undercover agents?

But later on, she remembered that Kaluuya specifically mentioned "when we met at the piano store", so it is possible that the two people just met by accident, and not undercover as she thought.

Out of caution, Belmode turned a blind eye and decided to pretend that these two people were not undercover agents regardless of whether they were.

This was the last thing Kaluuya asked her to do, how could she refuse him?

Vermouth had been looking for these two people for a long time. She knew that since Kaluuya had said it directly at that time, it meant that he thought she would know who they were soon, which meant that these two people were probably of excellent qualities.

Sure enough, almost two years after Kaluuya's death, Vermouth looked through the list of outstanding newcomers in the organization as usual, and found two pieces of information that slightly attracted her attention.

Toru Amuro and Hikaru Midorikawa, the former has what Kaluuya called "an appearance you'll never forget once you see it", and the latter is very good at playing musical instruments. Of course, they are not the first to meet these two conditions. What makes Vermouth more concerned is that these two people seem to have worked in a musical instrument store.

Coincidentally, the name of the music store was the same store where Vermouth bought the guitar from which he collected the Kaluuya relics, and the time the two worked there seemed to be roughly the same.

In addition, when she came to Tsukimiyama on a mission, she accidentally discovered the tombstone of Akae Nazuki. After careful investigation, she learned that Bourbon and Scotland would come here to sweep the graves. Only then did she completely confirm that these two people were Zero and Hiro, whom Kaluuya asked her to help take care of.

Considering that Kaluuya had predicted this before these two people joined the organization, Vermouth felt that the two people who were later code-named Bourbon and Scottish found their way into the organization by following the path that Kaluuya had left behind, or perhaps they were simply a last-ditch effort made by Kaluuya before his death to ensure that they could join the organization safely and smoothly.

...However, if it was Kalua, it probably wouldn't be the latter. After all, Kalua would never take the initiative to drag his friends into the quagmire of the organization.

Vermouth believed that Bourbon and Scotch might have information left by Kaluuya, and she was eager to find more and more evidence of the child's existence in this world. So she chose last year's death anniversary, when Bourbon and Scotch came to sweep the graves again, and she disguised herself as Kaluuya and tried it out.

As expected, the person on the other side was indeed 'Zero'. She was also very concerned and had been investigating the connection between Bourbon Scotch and Kalua for the past year, but unfortunately she had not found any clues so far.

Vermouth was not ready to give up, she believed that she would find it one day. At the same time, she took care of the two men many times in order to fulfill Kaluuya's last wish. When Lei's undercover identity was exposed and he defected, she also tried her best to save Bourbon and Scotch, who were Lei's partners. Otherwise, the two would have to go to the interrogation room to prove their innocence.

Seriously, can Bourbon tone it down a bit? She's been putting up with this guy for a long time because of Kaluuya, and he's always playing mystery with her... She's the source of the mysticism in the organization, okay?

Anyway, today Vermouth originally came here to worship her own child, and brought those children up along the way - she disguised herself as Akai Tomoaki just because her latest mission happened to be in Beihua, so she just found an identity and sneaked in.

Who knew that after she came here, she was called away for something. She thought it would not be too late to come back after finishing the task, so she prepared to leave first. However, it rained heavily and her car also got anchored.

Unexpected misfortune today.

Before meeting the detective, Bermode complained in his heart.

Then, on the mountain where Kalua's tomb stood, she met a young man who looked exactly like Kalua - Akae Nazuki, her sun, and even had the same voice.

As the Black Feather Thief died, only the teacher's son could be compared with him in disguise and voice changing abilities. Vermouth was proficient in this technique, so he could naturally tell that the other party's voice was not changed by a voice changer. Rather, the other party had no jewelry on him, so it was obviously impossible for him to have a voice changer.

The handsome school doctor with black hair and blue eyes asked the student brother he met for the first time with a worried look on his face: "Furugu-kun doesn't look well. Are you feeling unwell?"

As he spoke, the young school doctor suddenly closed the distance between himself and the detective before anyone could stop him. He put his forehead close to the detective's, testing the detective's temperature without any social distance, and stroked the detective's neck and went up behind his ear.

Kenji Hagiwara, who was standing nearby, reacted and grabbed Vermouth's hand reflexively to stop the school doctor from touching her. His expression looked very serious, and he barely maintained a polite appearance: "Sorry, could you please not get so close?"

Hattori Heiji and others sitting on the sofa also looked over here, especially Amuro Toru and Morobushi Kagemitsu, whose faces looked a little ugly. They recognized that the school doctor's method was to check whether the detective had disguised himself.

The detective just looked quietly at the school doctor in front of him the whole time. His reaction was obviously strong enough to detect the criminal's intention before he took action, but he did not dodge or stop it at all, and let the school doctor's hand touch his vital parts.

This is not Kalua at all, but it is very Akae Nazuki, because Akae Nazuki never resists or is wary of Vermode.

So the detective just looked at his long-lost family calmly, and before the other party was completely sure of his identity, he showed the school doctor a gentle smile that no one except Conan had ever seen on the detective's face.

"Thank you for your concern, doctor." Akae smiled, "I'm glad to see you here too."

The pronunciation of せんせい can refer to both doctor and teacher, so other people heard the detective calling the other person doctor, but only Vermouth knew that the detective was saying "teacher".

...The kid Kaluuya used to call her 'Teacher Sharon'.

"Since everyone knows each other, there is no need to introduce them again." The old butler was unaware of the undercurrents here and interrupted the delicate Shura scene with a voice, "It seems that all the invitees to this detective party are here. Tomorrow's party should be able to go smoothly. That's great."

"Hey, are we the only ones here?" Hattori Heiji's attention was slightly diverted, and he asked in surprise.

"In fact, the master originally invited the white horse detective who is also known as Sherlock Holmes abroad, but he was said to be in Sapporo to fight against the thief Kid, so he called to inform us that he refused to come." The butler said helplessly, "Besides, the master only invited three detectives."

"Before the party officially starts tomorrow night, you can move around freely. There are many modern entertainment venues in the manor, all of which were built according to the needs of the young lady, such as cinemas, game rooms and other places that young people like."

The housekeeper smiled and said, "Of course, if you want to swim, you can go to the swimming pool in the back. Because the young lady likes to swim all year round, there is always regular cleaning... But the other staff in the manor are on vacation for the next two days. If you have anything, please come back here and find me."

“I sincerely hope that everyone can have fun.”

Chijiang Nayue looked at Vermode's expression on the left, looked at the expression of her classmate on the right, and then looked down at the expressions of the two children.

[I think.] He said sternly, [They probably want to put me in their pockets and run away now.]

[…Then don’t provoke them, Xiaohong! ! ]